The Science of Love

The Science of Love explains the biology, psychology and philosophy of love. A further three books make the set Discussions of Love. I used 1970’s textbooks as well as the Martin Amos quote “love is an abstract noun”, as key references.

JM Originals Book Covers

JM Originals Cover Competition Winning Entry,2015.An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it by Jessie Greengrass

Marlow's Landing by Toby Vieria

See, Scrutinise & Print

The book takes The Little Mermaid, using stills from the film to show the subjects that under-pin the original narrative; the loss of the voice and the physical presentation of the adolescent Ariel. These images, remaining in their original order of appearance, are then continually repeated but each time examined further focusing in on the detail of the multiple individual frames that make up the seconds of film, visually slowing down the story to see what is really there. The original narrative is dismantled and is then reconstructed to create a new story, which highlights these sub narratives by taking the still frames out of their original context and re-positioning them in a way visually more representative of the lewd themes of the male watching the girl.

The Useful Guide to Crime & Consequence

"We're not here to judge, someone else will do that later".

Everyday

“We wake up, we leave the house, we wait for the tube…”

Using images taken from my daily routine, Everyday presents a visual spiraling decline into insanity as the stages of the narrator’s daily routine begin to merge into each other and the sense of reality within the images is lost.

The day repeats itself four times and the written narrative remains unchanged, using the pronoun 'we' to give a sense of duality in what appears to be a single first person narration.

Siren

For Their After

Siren is a place for girls who had their happily ever after, and the ones that didn’t make it out alive, to spend the remainder of their existence safe from men. Left in peace away from the lies, masks and false accounts of their stories. References for this work include Lolita, Disney, Peter Pan, Japanese anime, linguistic terms and real life events.